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A main character in the "Doonesbury" comic strip will lose a leg while fighting in Iraq, one of two strips published this week that feature soldiers getting injured in the war. In Monday's "Doonesbury," B.D., a football coach-turned-soldier, was injured after being reactivated in the Army at the end of 2002, following a losing football season. Later this week, he will wake up to find his left leg amputated, according to Universal Press Syndicate, the strip's distributor. "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau said he wanted to illustrate the sacrifices American soldiers are making. "It's a task any writer should approach with...

BANGALORE, India -- We grew up with the hippies in the 1960s. Thanks to the high-tech revolution, many of us became yuppies in the 1980s. And now, fasten your seat belt, because you may soon lose your job to a "zippie" in the 2000s. "The Zippies Are Here," declared the Indian weekly magazine Outlook. Zippies are this huge cohort of Indian youth who are the first to come of age since India shifted away from socialism and dived headfirst into global trade, the information revolution and turning itself into the world's service center. Outlook calls India's zippies "Liberalization's Children" and...